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Council considers bills on bus-lane tickets, signage and notices; DOT and MTA signal conditional support
Summary
Council members reviewed a package of local laws and resolutions addressing automated enforcement, signage, notice for bus-stop changes, GPS for first responders, student express fares and Fair Fares expansion. MTA and DOT broadly supported the policy goals but flagged capacity and implementation issues for some proposals.
The committee heard from council sponsors and agency witnesses about a package of local bills and resolutions intended to change enforcement, signage, notice and fairness rules for New York City buses.
Council Member Narcisse presented Intro 3-39 to limit the issuance of multiple bus-lane violation tickets for the same continuous violation to one ticket per hour. Narcisse said the change would keep enforcement “firm but fair” to avoid inundating drivers with multiple fines captured by different cameras. DOT told the committee it already uses a back-office process to prevent duplicate tickets and said it supports the goal of the bill.
Council Member Riley described…
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